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Charlotte Temple
Chapters (37)
- Epigraph 0:00
- The Author’s Preface 0:26
- Volume I: I: A Boarding School 3:24
- II: Domestic Concerns 8:54
- III: Unexpected Misfortunes 16:23
- IV: Change of Fortune 24:43
- V: Such Things Are 34:27
- VI: An Intriguing Teacher 40:54
- VII: Natural Sense of Propriety Inherent in the Female Bosom 48:15
- VIII: Domestic Pleasures Planned 56:18
- IX: We Know Not What a Day May Bring Forth 1:03:49
- X: When We Have Excited Curiosity, It Is but an Act of Good Nature to Gratify It 1:11:01
- XI: Conflict of Love and Duty 1:15:47
- XII: “How Thou Art Fall’n!” 1:21:58
- XIII: Cruel Disappointment 1:29:28
- XIV: Maternal Sorrow 1:37:18
- XV: Embarkation 1:44:14
- XVI: Necessary Digression 1:49:33
- XVII: A Wedding 1:56:05
- Volume II: XVIII: Reflections 2:01:59
- XIX: A Mistake Discovered 2:10:24
- XX: Virtue—When Most Amiable 2:17:39
- XXI: Another’s Woe 2:26:58
- XXII: Sorrows of the Heart 2:33:15
- XXIII: A Man May Smile, and Smile, and Be a Villain 2:41:39
- XXIV: Mystery Developed 2:48:35
- XXV: Reception of a Letter 2:58:43
- XXVI: What Might Be Expected 3:03:33
- XXVII: “Like a Fair Lily” 3:10:32
- XXVIII: A Trifling Retrospect 3:20:37
- XXIX: We Go Forward Again 3:27:13
- XXX: “Friendship a Name” 3:34:29
- XXXI: Subject Continued 3:41:14
- XXXII: Reasons Why and Wherefore 3:46:52
- XXXIII: Which People Void of Feeling Need Not Read 3:52:13
- XXXIV: Retribution 4:01:04
- XXXV: Conclusion 4:06:23
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Charlotte Temple is the story of the titular young woman who becomes entangled in a love affair with a lieutenant in the British army. Encouraged by her wayward teacher, Mademoiselle La Rue, Charlotte leaves behind her boarding school and absconds to America along with her seducer, lieutenant Montraville, and his friend Belcour. Far from her home in England, Charlotte’s notions of purity, romance, and familial devotion are quickly brought into stark conflict as she experiences the pain of misplaced trust and betrayal on the unfamiliar shores of New York.
The novel, first published in 1791, quickly became a bestseller, and remained the best-selling novel in American literature until it was unseated in 1851 by Uncle Tom’s Cabin.